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mike carey

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  1. Point taken.
  2. I stand corrected. As a redhead myself I shouldn't have been so myopically insensitive.
  3. Indeed, but you're blond muscle! I could just swoon.
  4. I'm happy with escorts reaching out to me unprompted. It prompts me to look at them, and I can ignore them of reply to decline if that's what I want to do. It's not difficult.
  5. Colour me shallow, but I could just cuddle down with Ben.
  6. I doubt that Kurtis would say this without knowing what he is talking about, and as far as I can tell he knows Mr Wolf and would be able to ask him. Of course, I don't know, so I am speculating, but I don't characterise my speculation as fact.
  7. A top, damn, I guess I'm not your type! But I had never even considered whether I might be, just love your family story.
  8. I also use WhatsApp with the same carrier-provided number. But you knew that.
  9. Yes, all the evidence is clear, Benjamin is just horrible. I can't imagine why anyone would want to meet him.
  10. Similar thoughts have come to my mind.
  11. One of my favourites, although I've usually said, 'as much use as ...'.
  12. I open to being corrected on this, but my understanding is that the source of the problem is that the aircraft is inherently unstable and therefore the software is necessary to compensate for that. The original software on occasions misread what the aircraft was doing so was correcting problems that did not exist. So yes, the software can be and needs to be fixed but it will still be fighting the aircraft rather than simply operating it. No matter what they do, I'm yet to be convinced to fly on one of these jets if they return to service.
  13. This made me think of Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister who would say, 'Courageous decision, Minister', which was code for, 'Are you mad?' (I'm not suggesting that you said ambitious to mean crazy.)
  14. What? *Reaches for smelling salts.*
  15. Bon anniversaire!
  16. An interesting question indeed. While @BasketBaller's coming out to his sons was understandably challenging I doubt that them disclosing to their girlfriends would be fraught in any way. My impression is that for that generation being gay is a complete non-issue. They may be interested in how he came out but not that he is gay.
  17. Yes, you are entitled to avoid non-kosher contamination in your food. But whether an airline needs to facilitate that is a separate question. I doubt they have any obligation to provide dietary choices to passengers (they are not obliged to provide food at all, so how could they be obliged to meet specific requirements), but they do so as a business decision. In doing so they do their best to meet those requirements. While they may have a legal obligation to ensure there are no nuts in a meal provided do someone with an allergy, I doubt they could be required to meet all the tests for religious observance. By all means ensure no prohibited foods (pork, shellfish) but expecting that they meet all the minutiae of kosher or halal is not reasonable. (Although halal slaughter is an easy standard to pass.) I seem to recall that in Islam, the obligation to accept hospitality is higher than the obligation to adhere to dietary rules. That could provide a useful way to consider airline food. Choose the option that most closely meets key observance criteria, don't insist on detailed adherence to some set of rules.
  18. Ok, AVG, I confess, I didn't read the article. But then, as a non-Instagram user, I was never the target audience for the 'influencers'. Not that I would have been even if I did frequent Instagram. The whole thing is sort of interesting as a phenomenon viewed from afar but not something that affects me. So, 'yawn'.
  19. Thanks, I figured that. I presume there's still a lounge for those pax, just not as fancy.
  20. On the subject of their Signature Suite, the definition of 'paid' J-class comes up. Some airlines have business upgrades via internal entitlements but many only give them for substantial numbers of points. I wonder if a business seat that cost the passenger 50K FF points counts as 'paid' or 'upgrade'?
  21. This highlights something of a dilemma. AC has this at Pearson, but I suspect nowhere else. Airlines have to have enough traffic at any airport to justify establishing any sort of lounge. My guess is AC only have enough paid J pax to justify their Signature Suite at one airport (so far). Airlines have to balance the selectivity of their lounge access against the volume of traffic that would make a business case for setting one up. You can see that when some airlines share lounges (One World at LAX international terminal) or arrange access for their passengers to another airline's lounge (QF uses Air France's at SFO). (Having set up the Qantas Club, with access by membership subscription, paid or upgraded premium cabin and gold elite status, the lounges became crowded. In recent years they set up Business lounges at their busiest domestic ports for [any] J class and platinum elite status.)
  22. Peter is a delightful man, and pleasant to the eye. I'll be back.
  23. No probs.
  24. Escorts can build their reputations here. Or not. It's their choice.
  25. Is this the man you're talking about? https://rent.men/Relaxwithmee
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